Just for conversations sake, this is the roster I made up with my current EHM game of a potential 2008 team for Canada and a secondary one, as well. These are based off of what they did in the 07-08 season and their overall performance
Crosby-Brule-Heatley
Kariya-Allison-Bertuzzi
Tanguay-Thornton-Iginla
Smyth-Lecavelier-Nash
some things: Kariya and Allison revitalized their careers as linemates with Washington so they're together, even though Thornton and Lecavelier had stronger seasons performance wise. Same with Brule and Heatley, they're with my St. Louis Blues and have great chemistry as well. The only weakness I see is Tanguay on a potential checking line
Brewer-Phaneuf
Cobourn-Stuart
Foote-Lynch
notes: There's about 20 defenceman that could be picked, Canada's depth is amazing so this is a crapshoot. Cobourn's in because he's my team's (St. Louis's) best defenceman, Lynch is the best defensive defenceman in the league with a 98 defence rating and Phaneuf is the best overall defenceman in the league.
Luongo and Brodeur as the goalies
now for the secondary team:
Latendresse- Kessel-St. Louis
Whitney-Arnott-Lupul
Daze-Staal-Parrish
Eager-Beech-Horton
notes: Latendresse's the best pure powerforward in the league besides Bertuzzi and he's also a Blue. Kessel's Canadian in this game because I made a mistake when editing players. Whitney and Daze completely revitalized their careers while Lupul had 48 goals with a 99 shooting stat. Eager, Beech, and Horton are an excellent checking line, all three are top notch all round young players. Parrish had the best overall performance rating of forwards on this team.
Bouwmeester-Rick Jackman
Jovanovski-Morris
Pronger-Regehr
Jackman's a norris candidate, but a one year wonder so that keeps him off the first team. All these guys would be on the first team, you'd think, but the first teamers had better performance ratings than these guys. Still good.
Giguere and Thibault are the goalies. Thibault's a surprise over Theodore or Turco, but he earn't it
players that could be on the teams but arn't: Doan, Pyatt, Gagne, Morrow, P.M. Bouchard, Briere, Peca, Ladd, Lindros, Richards, Savard, Madden, Bell, King, Sullivan, Williams, Murray, Scott Niedermayer, Barker, Redden. These guys could make any other team but Canada because it's so deep
woah, crap, I just realized Parrish is American. replace him with uh, Justin Williams or Shane Doan